1st way: Upload via FTP Server

3. Open the WordPress admin panel by going to www.your_domain.com/wp-admin/.

4. Go to Appearance > Themes on the sidebar.

5. Activate The SEO theme.

Video

2nd way: Upload via WordPress Admin

1. Open the WordPress admin panel (navigate through your web browser to the folder where you have installed the WordPress e.g www.your_domain.com/wp-admin/) and go Appearance > Themes on admin sidebar..

2. Click on the Add new button.

3. Click on the Upload Theme button.

4. Click on the choose file button, select "the-seo-installable.zip" and click Open, and than Install Now button.

5. Activate The SEO theme

Error: The link you followed has expired

If you met the error when try to upload installab.zip with the theme: The link you followed has expired.

4. Go to Appearance -> Themes and use the theme installation guide below as usual.

Install Plugins & Content: 1 click installer

Acivate the theme. Install and activate SecretLab Installer plugin.

Go to Appearance -> Welcome page. Choose the version of design that you want to install and click Start installation button.

Go to Theme Options and save settings. All done!

Video of automatic install process

Set php settings on GoDaddy

There are 2 ways to set php.ini setting in Godaddy:

1) Create a file ".user.ini" and type in:
max_execution_time 120
memory_limit 256M
post_max_size 40M
upload_max_filesize 40M
Save it & upload it via FTP into the same Folder where you find the wp-config.php
Simple as that & it works like a charm.

2)

Go to CPanel

Select PHP version

Switch to PHP options

Set parameters

Manual Theme Install

if you cannot finish the automatic installation and have any server errors, you can use the manual installation. There are step-by-step installation functions - just click and wait. There are 13 steps. Every step can be done automatically by button Do it or manually by link (if it couln't be done automatically).

1. Install and activate plugins.

2. Refresh the page.

Step-by-step video for automatic install and full manual, if something went wrong

Files for full manual installation is in the folder /the-seo/import/.

Explanation for video

If there is an error, you can see what happened in Install Log and ask your hosting administrator to check php error log, to see the reason of error. You can also use Manual Install

You can now continue the installation process from the step before the error.

1. Click 1. Begin installing plugins

Select all plugins, choose Install and click Apply.

2. Click 2. Begin activating plugins

Select all plugins, choose Install and click Apply.

3. Click 3. Refresh the page

4. After the installation and activation of the plugins is complete, go to Appearance > Welcome and choose second step 4. Import Custom Post Types. On the Import/Export page choose types_plugin_settings.xml file in the import folder and click Import file. This is Custom Post Type for portfolio, testimonials, services and teammates.

You will be prompted for what groups, fields, and types you want to create. Select them all. This will create the Custom Post Types for portfolio, testimonials, services, and teammates.

Click Browse button, choose the slider in the /import/name_of_design/sliders/ folder and click Import. You need to import all of sliders for your selected design.

6. Go back to the welcome page and click 6. Import Suppamenu Skins. Choose the file with Suppamenu skins in Restore/Import section. You can find the file in the /import/name_of_design/ folder. For example, /import/SEO Light/suppamenu-skins-seo-light-28Nov15.dat. Click Import

7. Click 7. Import Theme Option Set on welcome page. Open the file with theme option settings in the /import/name_of_design/ folder. For example, /import/SEO digital/theme_options_seodigital.json. Copy all text data, click button import from file, paste the data into the textarea, and click Importbutton.

9. Click Do it and wait a few seconds, it must setup icon font. If an error is displayed, click Import Icon Fonts or go to Ultimate -> icon Manager and click button Upload new icons and choose zip archive alico2055.zip from folder /the-seo/import/ and click Insert Fonts Zip File button.

10. Click 10. Set Menu and Discussions Checkboxes.

11. Click 11. Import Dummy Data on welcome page. Choose the dummy data file in the /import/name_of_design/ folder. There are two identical dummy data folders. They are named for your hosting capabilities.
The 1 Part XML Import is for fast servers. The 7 Part XML Import is for slower servers. Choose the one you need, select the xml file(s), click Upload file and import

When the import process is finished, you can see the inscription All done. Have fun!.

If you receive either the Request Timeout or 500 Server Internal Error it means the import process was unable to finish for 1 step. You can solve this in two ways:

1) If you have tried the 1 Part XML, use the 7 Part XML Import (For slow web hosts).

2) Press key press the F5 button. Then, click the Resend Data button if your browser prompts you to do so. This second option may take 10 to 15 repetitions to complete.

After this, go to the page with the error and refresh it. And if you get error again, go to /wp-content/debug.log to read information about the error. When you know what the problem is, you can solve it, or send a message to your host to fix it.

Contact 7 Troubleshooting

Cant change color scheme?

These colour scheme savings are saved into the CSS-file after you click Save changes button in the theme options. If color scheme doesnt change, check writable permission for file and folder for CSS files:

License Keys for plugins

I bought the developer extended licenses for WP Bakery, Ultimate Addons for WP Bakery and Slider Revolution, Suppamenu. I cannot share these keys (I do not have permission). I can provide updates of plugins with the theme updates.

1st reason: I do not have permission to share my developer license with customers.

2nd reason: if you are a WP Bakery updated, you will crash some of the elements of the theme or design. I am testing every version of WP Bakery, Ultimate Addons for WP Bakery and other plugins. Do you want to test it by yourself and fix any bugs? I don’t think so. I will protect you from crashing your website..

Suppamenu Pro

Online documentation for other plugins

General Setting

You can set your Google Map API key, company name, choose your home page and upload favicon.

Contact & Map

You can add your contact information and coordinates for Google Map section on footer. Also, if you don't want or need it, you can turn off the Google Map section

Social

You can toggle the social icons on and off and add the urls of your social pages.

Layout: Design Options Tab

On the Layout tab, , you can choose which design version you want to use, set transition time for effects, and choose page layout and sidebar options.

Header: Design Options Tab

On the Header tab, you can choose header type, slider, or hero scene. (Sliders can be created in Slider Revolution.) You can also turn the top bar off.

Footer: Design Options Tab

On the Footer tab, you can edit the copyright text and call-to-action blocks that appear in the footer.

Menu: Design Options Tab

On the Menu tab, you can edit the backgrounds for the dropdown menu item. After uploading image on this screen, add class subbgr1 or subbgr2 to menu item on Appearance -> Menu page. You can also edit background for the sticky menu that appear with each header.

Text Options

On the Text tab, you can set Headings 1 for some page and other texts from website.

Custom

On the Custom tab, you can add any custom CSS and JS code and turn off the Scroll to top button.

Typography

Powerfull setting for typography with 750+ Google Fonts

Shop

Select slider and sidebar options for your store. You can also turn on on/off the shopping cart at the menu.

Blog

This is where you customize your blog display options. Select page layout, sidebar, and column options. These options work for the blog page, /category/blog/ category and subcategories pages. You can also select slider for blog's header.

Color Scheme

You can edit colors and save and import color sets. Import our 3 basic color sets from file 3_color_kits.json as an example to see how things work.

Import / Export

You can download and import Theme option settings.

Where to edit?

Sidebars: How Sidebar Systems Work?

For any page or post you can add individual sidebar setting by our Metabox plugin

For Shop - Theme Options -> Shop. You can add nessesary widgets in Appearance -> Widgets at Left Shop Sidebar and Right Shop Sidebar

For Blog - Theme Options -> Blog. You can add nessesary widgets in Appearance -> Widgets at Left Blog Sidebar and Right Blog Sidebar.

we recommend that you put all of your blog’s categories into Blog category with slug /blog/ for proper operation of your blog’s settings.

Shortcodes

The theme uses a lot of shortcodes: WP Bakery, Ultimate Addons for WP Bakery and SecretLab Shortcodes. You can find full information about these plugins at official documentations. And info about SecretLab Shortcodes is here.

SecretLab Shortcodes

Posts Feed

Testimonials Posts with Carousel

It displays feed of testimonials in 2 columns-carousel with dots-navigation.

Testimonials Posts with Carousel. Layout #2

It displays feed of testimonials in 1 column-carousel with dots-navigation.

Digital Theme Post Format, 2 columns

It displays feed of posts.

Teammate Posts with Carousel

It displays feed of teammates in 2 columns-carousel with arrows-navigation.

Price Table Layout#1

It displays price table.

Price Table Layout#2

It displays price table.

Free SEO Audit

It displays Call-to-Action block with animated message form.

Why Us Block Layout

It displays 5 icons and 1 headline with description.

Social Icons

You can create custom icons to link to your social pages in any place

Latest news: 4 blog posts

Display your last 4 blog posts. 1 post at the left side and 3 posts at the right side.

MegaIcons

Powerful shortcode to display icons with title and description

Testimonials. Layout #4

Testimonials #5: tabs view

Price Table Layout #3

Responsive Price Tables

Portfolio List Carousel

Display last portfolio items

Portfolio Item Carousel

Services List #2

SEO Results Item Carousel

Displays your clients and results: phrases at top-10 etc. The shortcode takes data (like value of phrase) from portfolio post type by tag "SEO". So, it displays the last items from your portfolio with the ‘SEO’ tag. The portfolio data items should be set in additional fields.

Price Table Layout #4

Responsive Single Price Table

Simple Title

Shortcode to display headeings or text blocks with font settings.

Flex Buttons

Shortcode to display buttons with flexible settings settings.

Icon Fonts & Icon Font Manager

The theme is supplied with 2 icon font sets: alico to 2055 icons, and seocon icons set to 153 icons. You can find zip archives with the icon sets at Icon fonts folder.

Icon Manager supplied with Ultimate Addons with WP Bakery and support upload icon fonts, that was prepared at Iconmoon App. You can create icon font and upload .zip archive to Icon manager to use icons for display through WP Bakery.

Website Speed Optimization and Cache Plugins

The best way to increase website loading speed is CDN (Content Delivery Network). For example, cloudflare.com, it's free

Also you can optimize:

1. Download and install W3 Total Cache plugin
- Go to Performance > General Settings
- At the end of this page you'll find "Import / Export Settings" section which you can import "w3-total-cache-config.json" file. The mentioned file is available via Package Content Folder > IncreasePageSpeed
- Go to "Minify" and set your API key to exclusion:

Translate WordPress Theme

Page Builder

If you wanna display a service page like a homepage, save it like a template at the Cisual Composer, create a new page, load the template, save the page and then set it like a homepage in the Theme Options.

Fit Your Brand or How to Prepare Your Website

If you want to change colors to fit your brand, there are a list of tasks:

Change color scheme at Theme Options

Set logo at menu skin at Suppamenu

Change menu colors at menu skin at Suppamenu

Change colors at sliders at Slider Revolution plugin

Change colors at mockups at homepage

Change colors at content of homepage

Set your email address at forms at Contact 7 plugin

Insert your testimonials at Testimonials post type

Insert your teammates at Teammate post type

Insert your or edit our portfolio at Portfolio post type

Edit services pages at Service post type

Edit contact information at footer

Edit contact information at contact page

Set your options at MailPoet plugins, if you need a subscription form

How to change HTTP to HTTPS

Go to https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/

Go to Setting -> General and set your WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to https.

Support Desk

Please remember you have purchased a very affordable theme. You have not paid for a full-time web design agency. Occasionally, we will help with small tweaks, but these requests will be put on a lower priority due to their nature. Support is also 100% optional and we provide it for your convinience, so please be patient, polite and respectful.

* Responding to questions or problems regarding the theme and its features

* Fixing bugs and reported issues

* Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

Theme support does not include:

* Customization and installation services

* Support for third party software and plug-ins

Before seeking support, please...

* Make sure your question is a valid Theme Issue and not a customization request.

* Make sure you have read through the documentation and any related video guides before asking support on how to accomplish a task.

* Make sure to double check the theme FAQs.

* Try disabling any active plugins to make sure there isn't a conflict with a plugin. If there is, you can let us know.

* If you have customized your theme and now have an issue, back-track to make sure you didn't make a mistake. If you have made changes and can't find the issue, please provide us with your changelog.

* Almost 80% of the time we find that the solution to people's issues can be solved with a simple "Google Search". You might want to try that before seeking support. You might be able to fix the issue yourself much quicker than we can respond to your request.

* Make sure to state the name of the theme you are having issues with when requesting support via ThemeForest.

Files & Sources

Included Stylesheets

These are the primary CSS files used for general front-end styling. Use these to customize your theme even further. All included JavaScript codes under the-seo/css/